[nhab-tech] greetings from north carolina
- From: "Ed Meskys" <edmeskys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <nhab-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:14:11 -0500
Just a note that I am enjoying the weather here. Today it got into the low 60s.
But yesterday we got a tornado warning, but while none did show up, the Raleigh
airport reported 110 MPH winds! And a few mornings ago it was only 11º
Below is an excerpt from the next issue of my personal newsletter, THE VIEW
FROM ENTROPY HALL. This was from #50 which will circulate in a month or so. The
whole newsletter is free, and if you have not been getting it and want to, I
will be glad to put you on the email list.
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^^EMAIL AND PHONES
Wintering in Raleigh, N.C., I had to re-evaluate which services I can use. My
âTrackâ cell phone will not work here by our apartmentâ¦no towers. I have
used the phone in many states in my travels, and this is the first place it
would not work at all. It did work at the local Embassy Suites Hotel, about 20
miles away, where the local SF con was held. Since it would not work by our
apartment,it was not a reliable number for contacting us. We had hoped to have
calls to our NH land line forwarded, but we should have done that before we had
put it on hiatus. Next year we will know better. We had to get a local
land-line, number 919-977-6728, which I do not expect to be saved for next
year. .
For email, I use Outlook Express under Windows-xp on my desktop, and Live Mail
under Windows-7 on my laptop. I have Office-03 on both. I also put G-mail under
Thunderbird on the laptop. I had planned to read only Roadrunner mail with Live
Mail, and only G-mail under Thunderbird, to keep the two mail streams separate.
Unfortunately I have not managed to work Thunderbird relying on my JAWS screen
reader, so I have only been using Roadrunner until I can get some lessons in
Thunderbird back in NH.
Live mail seems to work very differently from Outlook Express. When oE
downloads a message, it gets copied onto my hard drive, and deleted from the
server. Near as I can tell, LM only establishes a link to the message on the
server, leaving it there. After I read and answer the message, when I
âdeleteâ it I only break the link, leaving it on the server. After a while,
Roadrunner bitches that my box is too full, and I have to get Sandy to go to
the website and delete my read mail. I am having other problems with Live Mail,
and will need more help when I get home. Back in Concord there are three blind
computer experts who know how to work in JAWS whom I hope to consult. In OE,
control-shift âbâ will bring up the address book, but not in LM. In OE,
when the curser is on an unopened message, I can use the âapplications
button to put the senderâs eddress in an address book, or to move or copy the
letter to another location. In OE, when I start to type an eddress into the
âtoâ box, it guesses what I want, and fills in the rest, unless I correct
it. Again, not in LM.
Another problem with Windows-7 is hassles finding old files I want to reopen. I
keep getting a menu of three items named with strange letter combinations. It
takes much tabbing and arrowing in random directions until I (sometimes) manage
to find the file I am looking for.
Editing this ENTROPY on the laptop I run into another problem. When I want to
insert a word or sentence, I go to where I want to insert it, but suddenly I
find that I had inserted it several lines above where I wanted it. I do not
know what I did wrong when this happens.
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Best, Ed Meskys
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